May 6-Flags
Management and PR Personnel Rot In Hell
For All Eternity!!!
(or,
"Why I Hate Everybody Even Remotely Connected With Sux-Flags")
6-Flags
destroyed the TEXAS GIANT, and
they've destroyed my
coaster-enthusiasm along with it!. You
cannot fathom the depth of my hatred for EVERYTHING 6-Flags and it's
corporate greed. Here are but a few of the Evil Empire's offenses:
The
lying, bait-and-switch tactics
used for ERTs every year at 6-Flags
Over Georgia's
Spring Fling. Documented
on this site earlier, in the
past three
years that I have attended this event,
the
park has NEVER
delivered on it's
schedule or even attempted to compensate
for
weather delays. One year's ERTs
(that
"E" used to mean "Exclusive")
were even
shared with a different
school-sponsored group.
6-Flags bought
the
Schwarzkopf classic THRILLER, but then was
incapable of
maintaining or
operating it at two of their parks. They
finally
dumped it on a fair in the middle of Mexico where it operates
in relative
obscurity only 3-weeks out of the year.
6-Flags sold
Astrowold to real-estate
developers, resulting in the
razing of
the entire park and the
destruction of the TEXAS
CYCLONE. To this
day, the property sits
undeveloped.
6-Flags former-CEO Mark Shapiro
announced a $10-million re-hab
for
6-FoT's TEXAS GIANT, but
conveniently
hid the fact that he/they were going destroy the classic
woodie
by turning it into an ordinary steel-coaster. Further, 6-Flags
has of course decided to piss-on all of those who loved the original
TEXAS GIANT
by
giving the new
steel-abomination the very same name as it's predecessor. If they had
ANY integrity at all, they would have devised a name-change, much
in the way Kennywood did when they resurrected STEEL PHANTOM as
PHANTOM'S REVENGE. However, honesty and integrity are not
words that come to my mind when discussing 6-Flags!
But it was
the
actual destruction of the TEXAS
GIANT
that particularly ripped my heart out. No matter where I traveled or
what I rode, I always looked forward to getting back in Arlington for
"serious wood", meaning as many rides on TG as an afternoon would
allow. Although some years it
was a challenge, TG was always a joy and never too rough for
me, as my 1422 ride-count on it attests. I most certainly will NEVER
ride the new piece-of-crap!
I realize
that enough
sycophants will be praising the new steel-trash-heap, and that's to be
expected: many enthusiasts are only concerned about not offending the
park so as to not jeopardize their ERTs (i.e., shut up and play nice).
What's really bizzare is that most of those "enthusiasts" waste time
standing-around/socializing during ERTs instead of actually RIDING!
Also, I'll be amused to see ACE lose all credibility by sucking up to
6-Flags while the park's PR-Department insists on promoting the new
abomination as a record-breaking "woodie". (People forget how
Astroworld's PR-Dept continued to tout it's DUNGEON DROP as a
rollercoaster in all of their press releases 'til the very end. PR
needs to be challenged publically when they're WRONG, you idiots!). As
far as the general-public, I lend no credence to what
they will say, since they were the fickle ones always
complaining about TG in the first place.
My
bottom-line is that 6-Flags is
NOT a friend of the 'coaster
community as I know it, 6-Flags is NOT
interested in
rollercoaster preservation, and I will NOT
be spending another fucking cent in any of their properties! This
decision reaps two
immediately HUGE benefits for me: (1) not having to deal anymore with
screaming
kids on 6-F rides, and (2) eliminating almost completely any
opportunity that
I will see The Runt
in the DFW-Metroplex ever again.
So, since the thrill is now gone,
CoasterDude - aka CaptainCoaster - is signing-off, retiring from the
amusement park circuit after riding 1067 different coasters
(by ACE's Coaster Census) since 1995. It was fun...until 6-Flags fucked
everything up!
So long, my dearly beloved
friend!
